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MomsRising MomsVote Politics & Policy

November 5, 2018

This is it. It’s Election Eve. We have less than 24 hours until the election -- and we urgently need your help reminding infrequent voters to #VOTE on Election Day, which is tomorrow, November 6, by making some quick reminders to vote. It’s going to take all of us to make voter turnout this year...

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Kristin Rowe-Finkbeiner

October 3, 2018

Voting is an essential function in a healthy democracy. But in the United States, voting isn’t as easy as it should be. Registering to vote can itself be enough of a barrier to prevent people from exercising this fundamental right. There are hurdles to registering that millions of us face, like...

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Anita Sarah Jackson

November 2, 2018

We're just five days away from Election Day. We are fired up, and we can't wait to vote. We know you are too! So we're sharing our top ways to help get out the vote this week. These are all easy actions that make a big difference. Remember: you have a big influence on friends and family. Please...

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Karen Showalter

MomsRising MomsVote

October 31, 2018

The MOMentum you created in October was scary good — and it’s still going! Your generosity is helping us mobilize women, moms, and the people who love them to get out the vote across the nation, to stand up for maternal justice, and so much more.

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Anita Sarah Jackson

We Are MomsRising!

Childcare & Early Education Families & The Federal Budget Paid Family Leave Realistic & Fair Wages

October 31, 2018

In today’s installment of We Are MomsRising, we talked to Jade in California about the childcare struggle and her experiences as an immigrant. Read her story below. To learn more about the We Are MomsRising campaign, check out this blog post . My partner Caesar is Mexican and I am British. It took...

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Childcare & Early Education Social & Emotional Development

October 26, 2018

I recently had the joy of presenting an award from the Washington Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights and Urban Affairs to Ruby Bridges. As a six-year-old first grader in New Orleans in 1960, Ruby Bridges became the first Black student to attend an all-White elementary school in the South. She...

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Marian Wright Edelman

October 24, 2018

Llegó el momento. El periodo de votación temprana comenzó en North Carolina el miércoles, 17 de octubre y termina el sábado, 3 de noviembre (¡claro que también puedes votar el 6 de noviembre, Día de las Elecciones). Muchas cosas están en juego para las mujeres y familias en estas elecciones –ahora...

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Childcare & Early Education

October 24, 2018

In Newark, New Jersey, the afterschool program is teaming with the Audubon Society to use infrared cameras to study how animals move overnight, and students are creating their own comic book heroes. In San Benito, Texas, a few miles from the border with Mexico, afterschool programs will hold...

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